Sentences with phrase «spent fuel fire»

A major spent fuel fire at a U.S. nuclear plant «could dwarf the horrific consequences of the Fukushima accident,» says Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., who was not on the panel.

«US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster: Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to relocate.»

Not exact matches

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A plan to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from U.S. commercial nuclear reactors in New Mexico is drawing fire from critics who say the federal government needs to consider more alternatives.

It was a development that saw advertisers threaten to pull media spend from the social network — Mozilla actually did so — and high - profile figures in the tech community adding fuel to the fire with barbed #DeleteFacebook comments.

If the Frenchman was being asked about the struggles of Jose Mourinho or Sir Alex Ferguson or any of his big rivals, I think he would have been tempted to add a bit of fuel to the fire of media criticism, perhaps pointing to the massive amount of money spent by the Dutchman in the summer.

However, stories like this one just add fuel to the «large school districts are just inefficient in the way they spend their money» fire, and weakens what should be the unified message of school food reformers — «it just costs more to do it right.»

A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., plant officials said.

As ProPublica reported earlier, fire safety is a continuing concern at the country's 104 commercial reactors, as is the volume of spent fuel piling up at plants.

The spent fuel pool is dry and there appears to be a zirconium fire in the spent fuel pool of Unit 4.»

And a fire at a pool storing spent fuel rods at dormant reactor No. 4 is posing additional hazards to the few workers remaining at the site.

The NRC analysis found that a fire in a spent - fuel pool at an average nuclear reactor site would cause $ 125 billion in damages, while expedited transfer of spent fuel to dry casks could reduce radioactive releases from pool fires by 99 percent.

The fire in the spent fuel store of reactor unit 4 has probably released the worst of the radioactive materials so far.

Officials said hydrogen released from the spent fuel pool at No. 4 may have caused a fire there.

Highly packed spent fuel pools at the Japanese facility have caught fire, lost coolant, and released unknown quantities of radioactive material, underscoring the need to remove as much fuel from overcrowded pools as possible.

A report to Congress in 2006 by a National Research Council panel investigating terrorist threats to spent fuel storage concluded that «under some conditions,» if a pool were partially or completely drained, that «could lead to a propagating zirconium cladding fire and the release of large quantities of radioactive materials to the environment.»

It notes that a storage facility that could hold spent fuel for several decades while it cools could free up space in reactors» pools, lowering the risk of overheating, loss of coolant, and fires.

And the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 suggested the practice of overcrowding pools for the storage of spent nuclear fuel rods — that has caused fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, which stores far less used fuel than typical U.S. plants — could prove dangerous.

They feared that spent fuel stored in the reactor halls would catch fire and send radioactive smoke across a much wider swath of eastern Japan, including Tokyo.

As we speak, one of the most serious problems happening in Fukushima Daiichi is the spent fuel pool - fire at the fourth reactor.

Unraveling the mysteries surrounding the # 4 pool will require discovering why water levels there fell so quickly and whether the 230 tons of spent nuclear fuel melted in addition to catching on fire.

For more information, see von Hippel and Schoeppner's previous papers, «Reducing the Danger from Fires in Spent Fuel Pools» and «Economic Losses From a Fire in a Dense - Packed U.S. Spent Fuel Pool,» which were published in Science & Global Security in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

But Coogler couldn't let it go to his head; like his father, he has spent time working with incarcerated youth, experiences that likely fueled the story of Oscar Grant, a young man felled by an inadvertent bullet fired by a BART cop on New Year's Eve in Oakland in 2009.

To fuel the fire On Stranger Tides, I actually enjoyed this sequel, but mostly because I love spending time in the Pirates world.

Taken out of context, his words «recurrent consumer spending opportunities» were like fuel on the fire.

Shopaholics: these cards can be fuel to the spending fire.

Well - respected people like Martin Holladay of Green Building Advisor have dismissed my edible building proposition but the more time I spend on this subject, the more convinced I become that we have to stop building out of the fossil fuels which are needed to make cement, to fire bricks, to make plastics and many types of insulation and that we have to substitute cellulose from trees whenever it is possible.

The nation's current energy portfolio has raised concerns about the adverse environmental effects of energy generation — particularly greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired and oil - fired power plants and the long - term storage of spent nuclear fuel.

So - called dispatchable solar farms would in theory allow utilities to avoid spending billions of dollars building fossil fuel power plants that are fired up only a few times a year when electricity demand spikes, like on a hot day.

In fact, said the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Omaha Public Power District, there was a fire in an electrical switchgear room that day, but the spent - fuel pool was in no imminent danger and a fire - suppression system extinguished it quickly.

The World Bank is spending billions of pounds subsidising new coal - fired power stations in developing countries while acknowledging that burning fossil fuels exposes the poor to catastrophic climate change.

They just fired up their first Fast Fission reactor after a LOT of process development, 100 times less spent fuel, 100 times greater fuel burn, they are probably ahead of everyone in future energy solutions.